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Mike Myers creates another series of
hilarious hits strung together with an
incomprehensible plot, wasted talent and
half-baked ideas. Beyoncé Knowles, doing a
weak Pam Grier impression as Foxxy Cleopa
tra, should stick to her day job with Destiny’s
Child. The villainous title character is a
strange fruit who roller-skates, nibbles on his
sunburned flesh and admires men who are
“toit like a toiger.”
—Jim Radosta
co-worker (Jake Gyllenhaal). When he turns
out to be more than she bargained for, she
finds herself at a difficult crossroads.
— JR
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N icole H olofcener’s nicely understated
writing/directing sophomore effort explores
the personal and career challenges of three
modem women— two sisters (C atherine
Keener and Emily M ortimer) and their
mother (Brenda Blethyn). T h e hilariously
acerbic Keener has some great romantic (!)
F ull F rontal
Steven Soderbergh (Out o f
Sight, Erin Brockovich, Traffic), the
most consistently reliable director
working today, finally fails with
this pointless exercise in ego, giv
ing a strong ensemble cast nothing
to do but babble aimlessly. Nicky
Katt provides some laughs as a
cocky actor butchering a Hitler
role, hut the joke wears thin fast.
—JR
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What's popped
and what's (topped,
in a theater near you.
P ossession
Writer/director Neil LaBute (In the
Company o f Men, Nurse Betty) ventures into
classier territory with this romance about
researchers (Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart)
obsessed with investigating a married Victorian
___ , poet (Jeremy Northam) and his bisexual
lover (Jennifer Ehle). The attractive cast
compensates for the corny dialogue.
-JR
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A partially deaf wallflower (Emmanuelle
Devos) takes a walk on the wild side when
she hires a greasy ex-con (Vincent Cassel)
as her secretarial assistant. Soon enough
she’s getting a rush out of helping craft a
plot to steal cash from a no-good mobster.
Intense, well acted and unexpectedly sexy.
—JR
A great director and strong cast do not save the aimless Full Frontal
Friends star Jennifer Aniston rescues her
career from the brink of syndication in this
challenging dramedy from the guys behind
Chuck & Buck. She plays a depressed wife
whose misery loves the company of a sullen
scenes with the adorable, much younger
Jake Gyllenhaal (D onnie D arko), while
child actor Raven Goodwin astounds as
Blethyn’s strong-willed adopted daughter.
Issues of race, gender and sex are deftly,
humorously handled; it’s a quiet hut strong
achievem ent.
— Christopher McQuain
Drive with Pride
M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) adds
another unsettling blockbuster to his credit with
this study of what it would really be like if hostile
aliens invaded planet Earth. Sans fiery explosions
and overt patriotism, it’s more about a former
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priest (Mel Gibson) struggling with his faith in
the face of unending tragedy than an interplane
tary war. Unfortunately, Shyamalan feels the
need to be sappy, and his usual ultra-twist end
ing has turned into complete predictability.
, — L isa Bradshaw
T adpole
Spouting off French philosophy while inex
plicably drooling over his stepmother (Sigourney
Weaver), Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) is
one of cinema’s most contradictory, detestable
characters ever. The ugly cinematography, poor
acting and shallow writing don’t help, either.
Critics somehow have been fooled into
thinking this piece of shit belongs in the d \ \
same category as The Graduate; don’t
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believe the hype.
—JR
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